RESPIRATORY MUSCLE FATIGUE
RESPIRATORY MUSCLE FATIGUE
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DOI:
10.1055/s-2007-1006250
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发表时间:
1991-10-01
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通讯作者:
CLANTON, T
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作者:
GRASSINO, A;CLANTON, T
Following publication of work indicating that the diaphragm behaves as other skeletal muscles, 1'2 Macklem and Roussos3 proposed that fatigue and failure of the respiratory muscles may occur in a number of clinical conditions, such as in premature babies, in atrophy of respiratory muscles after prolonged mechanical ventilation, in increased inspiratory loads (as in acute pulmonary edema), in neuromuscular weakness (as in quadriplegia) or in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patients. A decade later a considerable amount of experimental data on fatigue of the respiratory muscles has been gathered. Little progress, however, is evident in important clinical aspects, such as the estimation of its prevalence in patients, the absence of an effective bedside diagnostic test, and the lack of hard evidence for the existence of long-term fatigue in chronic disease. The lack of faster progress may be related to the limitations of the experimental approaches currently used. In fact, most studies on respiratory muscle fatigue, published over the last decade, were designed after the loading-until-failure approach used by Monod. 4It was hypothesized and found that acute loading can induce fatigue in clinical conditions, such as weaning from a mechanical ventilator, 5'6 exercise, 7 adding inspiratory loads, 8, 9 or modifying the breathing pattern. 9 However, in other clinical conditions, for example, those characterized by a slow progressive decrease in muscle force on a slow increase in respiratory loads (such as COPD, obesity, malnourished patients, kyphoscoliosis, lung fibrosis), fatigue development is less severe. Although these conditions can eventually progress to chronic respiratory failure, it is unlikely that muscle fatigue plays a significant role. What appears to be more important is the way in which the respiratory control system changes its pattern of muscle activation. For example, the drive to breathe, which is